On Wednesday September 18, nitrax@giron.wox.org wrote: > > A follow-up question: Does sw-raid5 checksumming use multiple CPUs in any > way? It could if separate threads were submitting requests on the same array, but I don't think it would be very likely. Lots of the checksumming is done by raid5d which is single threaded. Ofcourse if you had 2 raid5 arrays, they could quite possibly use one cpu each. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html